Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

Fireball XL5 on TPTV from saturday. 1962. so after Supercar but before Stingray.

also on TPTV, Picnic At Hanging Rock - 21:30 on Saturday and 21:00 next Monday.

Chimes At Midnight was on TPTV too on Saturday night(?)

haha yes I reviewed that on the last podcast (I review Picnic on the current one)

i semi-watched Chimes on Saturday night, it deserves its rep imo

A friend asked me if TPTV were showing a restored version of Chimes, but I didn't know. My memory is that it was the sound recording that was in most of need of fixing, rather than the image quality.

it looked and sounded fine to me

Looked and sounded good.

probably the best place to note that Network DVD have just gone into administration. 😞

that sky arts documentary about female electronic artists is on again tonight, quarter past midnight.

fireball xl5 was a bit hokey and sexist but the things that were always good, like the vehicle designs and general model making, were already there.

M Hulot's Holiday on Talking Pictures TV at 19:00 on the 9th of July. Also, for the Umberto Lenzi completists in the house, Sandokan: Pirate Of Malaysia at 14:50 on the 8th.

july!?

Yes. Bit early to set your DVRs I realise, but I received the spreadsheet today and it's unlikely I would remember to give the heads up closer to the date.

That gives me enough time to decide if I'm an Umberto Lenzi completist or not.

I've never got to see The Sailor Who Feel from Grace with the Sea tho it's a book I'm very fond of, thanks Talking Pictures

Fell, either way spellcheck

i figured sky arts was just endlessly repeating the first 4 seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents but noticed today that it's s06e04 so I've missed a truckload (which they will repeat, endlessly)

I've never got to see The Sailor Who Feel from Grace with the Sea tho it's a book I'm very fond of, thanks Talking Pictures

Started watching it but the Sailor took forever to show up and when he did it was an almost comatose Kris Kristoffersen.

i was maybe a bit drunker and more distractable than i'd realised but i'll try to stick it out on demand or something

it's on again tomorrow at 9

Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter is quite a juxtaposition

mudlarking on the thames. London Live. does what it says on the tin really. cheap tv, head-mounted camera, first person view, often of nothing but the ground. lots of buttons, lots of coins, lots of broken clay pipes*, the odd foot high Nkondi in the shape of a dog...

*all these clay pipes still hanging around after hundreds of years - the disposable vapes of their time.

(pipes were 1700-1770 apparently)

Secrets of the London Underground is back, and about camden this week. hadn't realised it was bombed during the war.

TPTV just showed the episode of The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, "Strangler's Web", which had Pauline Boty, the pop artist in it. much bigger role than the Maigret episode they showed around christmas.

TPTV have had a couple of screenings of Sam Fuller's Underworld USA this week - would recommend if it comes round again.

Saw on Monday night (I think).

repeats of repeats of the Twilight Zone on legend has just shown the one in the first series where it breaks the 4th wall and it's probably the most effective version of that i've ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_of_Difference (oh, richard matheson)

(although probably the highlight of the entire first season happens in episode 1...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH2S4kg2tY8

forgot to mention that I saw a film on tp the other week I think was called " the day the world caught fire" about the west and Russia conducting nuclear tests at exactly the same time unbeknownst to each other causing environmental changes that lead to the end of the world. told from the pov of a British newspaper. p enjoyable dialogue.

Excellent film.

Edward Judd's crack at film stardom!

iirc there's an early michael caine uncredited walk-on part in that

val guest as well

Down to the Sea in Ships, on very early this morning, like 3am, hadn't heard of it but taped it on spec. Whaling drama about a grandad and his grandson, full-sized boat, full-sized whales. an example of what TPTV does the best, i think.

(i'll now look it up on imdb and it'll have 6 oscars)(oh, lionel barrymore, dean stockwell as the grandson...)

Portrait Artist of the Year back on sky arts (ch11) from today. there was a special beforehand as well - PAotDecade which was a lot of the previous winners doing Judy Dench

Legend has just finished its second run of Twilight Zone series 1 and started on series 1 again. come on...

a lot of the previous winners doing Judy Dench

Who says tv has become sexless!

tptv has 'rich and strange' on 9th of november - a pre-war hitchcock i've not seen before (or, indeed, heard of)

It's great and important and jazz

think there's an early brian de palma on tptv next Friday that I've never seen.

funny things:

kes is on tptv and then on film4 the following night.

a kiss before dying also on twice, on tptv and somewhere else

Small Films documentary on bbc4 tonight. prior to that a couple of episodes of bagpuss including one i don't recognise, Owls Of Athens

didn't make the connection until the documentary that professor yaffle from bagpuss is basically cliff clavin from cheers

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0056478/

this was on tptv this morning. Anna Karina talking English in a comedy starring Bob Monkhouse and Hattie Jacques. it's after A Woman is a Woman but before pretty much everything else. it's quite bad, she's just about saving it.

(oh, it's called She'll Have To Go in the UK at least, 1962)

Bob's Burgers from the beginning on itv2 from Monday

my 12-yr-old freeview box has taken to turning itself off when i'm using it and turning itself on when i'm not

i'd upgrade obviously except there's a whole bunch of stuff recorded on it that i want to salvage if possible (no clue how tho)

the hitachi problems chatbot just laughed when i asked them abt it

some pvrs have an "export" feature that'll let you move stuff off the internal disk onto a random usb drive. mine needs a disk specially formulated and will only do sd recordings, not hd. takes stupidly long and you end up with raw .ts files but...

i fear my humax will eventually die and there won't be a decent replacement

Talking Pictures, 10:45 tonight, "The Death of Adolf Hitler", 1973 TV play, with Frank Finlay playing Bruno Ganz, looks like it might be worth a look.

just before that, ie now, Hammer House of mystery and suspense. Dirk Benedict, Burt Kwouk, Brian Clemens, Val Guest

one of the 3 times Michael 'Mr Bronson from Grange Hill' Sheard played Himmler, not to be confused with any of the 5 times he played Hitler